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01Small lenses, a lot of frame

GQUEEN round and browline sunglasses

The steampunk MTS2 in a 48-millimetre circle with side shields, the retro round in stainless steel with spring hinges, and the semi-rimless GQO6 browline that outsells both. All polarized, from $13.98 to $19.99.

  • 3 frames
  • 15 ways to buy them
  • 14 colourways

GQUEEN round pair

These are the frames people buy for the look and keep for the weight. A 48-millimetre round lens is small by any measure, so the MTS2 suits a narrow face and looks deliberately odd on a broad one, which is the point of it. The browline GQO6 is the opposite decision: a thick bar across the top, no rim below, and a shape that has been on faces since the fifties. It weighs twenty-four grams and comes in seven colourways, two of them two-pair boxes with a tortoise second pair. The stainless-steel retro round is the newest of the three and the only one with a rose-gold mirror.

Prices are the ones we last read; the GQUEEN approach updates them on a schedule, and the figure at the till is the one that counts.

02Before you order

Questions about GQUEEN rounds

What people want settled before they buy a round pair.

Is the GQUEEN steampunk round MTS2 too small for a wide face?

By the numbers, probably: 48 millimetres across the lens is the smallest lens in the range, and on a broad face it sits inside the eye socket rather than over it. That is the look some buyers want. If you want round without the smallness, the browline GQO6 on the same shelf reads as round from across a room and wears wider.

What are the side shields on the GQUEEN steampunk round for?

They close the gap between the lens and the temple, so less light arrives at the eye from the side. It is the same thing the ophthalmologists like about a wraparound, done in the style of a nineteenth-century frame, and it is why the MTS2 sits well on a bicycle.

Which GQUEEN round frame has the rose-gold mirror?

The stainless-steel retro round, in gold with a mirrored pink lens. The MTS2 comes in grey, blue and brown lenses and a red one, and the browline in grey, brown, G15 green and blue mirror. None of the three shares a colourway with another.

Every GQUEEN tint, every frame colour

Every tint, frame colour and two-pair box in the GQUEEN range sits behind this button, with the price we last read against each one.